Operation in opposition to youngster pornography, 9 arrests

(ANSA) – CATANIA, JUNE 15 – 9 individuals have been arrested in flagrante delicto by the State Police as a part of an unlimited operation all through the nation to fight on-line youngster pornography, coordinated by the District Legal professional’s Workplace of Catania. The investigation, performed by the Cyber ​​Safety Operations Middle of the Postal Police of Catania, made it attainable to analyze 26 individuals in numerous areas for possession and dissemination of kid pornography materials, subjected to non-public and pc searches. Hundreds of recordsdata, exchanges of horrifying photos and movies have been seized, with even very younger kids being abused. The investigations, coordinated by the Nationwide Middle for combating on-line youngster pornography (Cncpo) of the Postal Police service, started with a fancy IT evaluation exercise on some digital units seized from a suspect, arrested months in the past for a similar conduct, on which – inside a messaging platform – had been discovered teams devoted to the trade of grotesque photos and movies, with abuse even of very younger kids. Meticulous and complicated investigations, even of a particularly technical nature, led to the identification of the topics energetic within the teams, in opposition to whom the Catania District Legal professional’s Workplace issued private and pc search orders. The searches have been carried out with the collaboration of the assorted operational facilities for cyber safety of the Postal Police in Catania (1), Rome (3), Milan (3), Brescia (2), Varese (1), Bergamo (1), Catanzaro (1), Bari (2), Foggia (1), Turin (2), Cuneo (1), Genoa (2), Imperia (1), Avellino (1), Livorno (1), Prato (1), Ravenna (1), Ascoli piceno (1). These arrested reside within the provinces of Catania (1), Rome (1), Milan (2), Florence (1), Bergamo (1), Ravenna (1), Varese (1) and Imperia (1). One among them, along with 1000’s of kid pornography recordsdata, had in his cloud the digital format of the e-book ‘Guia del pedofilo’ (‘The pedophile’s information’). The fabric discovered and seized through the searches is being examined by the Catania District Prosecutor’s Workplace and the Postal Police for additional investigative investigations additionally helpful for the identification of the younger victims. (HANDLE).